08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
... black holes. They were first discovered in September 2015 using the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Louisiana and Washington state in the US, and announced publicly in February 2017. The scientific...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
In a ground-breaking announcement, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Advanced Virgo Interferometer have once again detected gravitational waves, but this time, not from merging black holes. In a far away...
02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
... from what could be the most massive black hole merger yet has been detected by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its discovery is also raising questions about how massive black holes are formed. When...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the discovery of gravitational waves from the merger... ever found. GW170817 was a different type of gravitational wave event than the first few ground-breaking ones before...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... in the Kepler 90 system, making it the only other known system to contain eight planets like our own. LIGO’s continued discoveries included the first detection of a neutron star merger and scientists surmise that our Universe...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
...and LISA have hit the news in their search for a wave predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. The ground-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was responsible for the detection of GW150914, and subsequent GW events, which...
